Taking orders :)

[caffeinator]

I'm interested, too...JohnEH's RPi adventures have got me networking music all over the house...need at least one great DAC for the main system...

 

[odamone]

Want!

 

[bjorgens]

I'm in for one as well

bryan

 

[schumany]

I've been trolling around looking to upgrade my digital front end.  This definitely seems worth the wait!

 

[lachlanralph]

Hi Guys,

I have gone through the thred but can not see any indicitave pricing? any guess, i know without a final BOM its not going to be exact, just need to make sure i can get approval from the minister of Finance 

Thanks

Lachlan

 

[Doc B]

Here's where we stand -

John has the new design pretty much developed and ready to prototype. We ran into a hitch in that the chip he wants to use for USB seemed to be out of stock everywhere. He pursued that before going forward and it now looks like there are plenty, but everyone in the U.S. is temporarily out of stock. So it will be a couple of weeks before we can have the new prototype board manufactured.

As to price, that is still up in the air until we have those boards made. There are also two possible scenarios in terms of how it is packaged that could make a big difference in the price. We won't know which version we will be selling until we hear the prototype board.

 

[mSummers]

Thanks for the update Doc.  Add me to the list of those patiently waiting for this kit.

 

[dwilli852]

Put me down for one of the kits when they are ready to ship.

 

[Grainger49]

Expendable income is coming to an end, Sept. 1.  So I probably won't get there.

 

[Bryce]

Another me too post, but I'm also looking for a high quality DIY DAC. Count me in when they are ready to ship.
;D

 

[ALL212]

I own three DAC's.  One sits on the shelf - it's older and doesn't do much for me but the other two are in production.  The Lite tube Dac sits between a Squeezebox III and my Crack  (it's not as painful as you might think!), the Stello DA220 from the other digital out on the Squeezebox to my main system.

I'm definitely in for one of Doc's creations!  Sign me up!  I can't wait.  ;D

 

[Doc B]

John just sent me some pics of the newest prototype board. Should be here in a week or two.

 

[wullymc]

Post some teaser pics!!

 

[tsingle999]

Good news! The headphone jack out of my mac mini is killing me. I cant get squeezeserver to work on the mac with my sb3

 

[tdogzthmn]

Does the balanced out on the DAC use the double XLR connectors?  I just picked up an electrostatic amp with the 3-pin XLR inputs and want to be able to feed it a balanced signal.

 

[Doc B]

John just sent me an email saying that he has the SPDIF and the USB inputs working on the latest prototype, just needing a couple more tweaks. Once that is finalized he will get his special digital filter working and hopefully we should have a prototype to audition in few more weeks.

 

[denti alligator]

Cool. If that prototype meets expectations would the next step be to move to making it available?

 

[Doc B]

John designs the digital to audio board and does the programming. We do the output design, power supply and packaging. Once we have the board we will be able to assess how much more might be involved in getting it to market.

 

[adamct]

John designs the digital to audio board and does the programming. We do the output design, power supply and packaging. Once we have the board we will be able to assess how much more might be involved in getting it to market.

That can't be more than 30 minutes of work, can it?

;D

 

[Alonzo]

Sir you woefully underestimate that amount of work..you forgot the mandatory 15 min food break and 15 min employee ergo stress relief break.  You shouldn't be flaunting state laws